Lucretius Quotes - Page 7

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• In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Literature, Bitterness

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1855.

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• When the body is assailed by the strong force of time and the limbs weaken from exhausted force, genius breaks down, and mind and speech fail.
  [Lat., Ubi jam valideis quassatum est viribus aevi
  Corpus, et obtuseis ceciderunt viribus artus,
  Claudicat ingenium delirat linguaque mensque.]

  Lucretius

  Strong, Mind, Jam

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• I prove the supreme law of Gods and sky,
  And the primordial germs of things unfold,
  Whence Nature all creates, and multiplies
  And fosters all, and whither she resolves
  Each in the end when each is overthrown.
  This ultimate stock we have devised to name
  Procreant atoms, matter, seeds of things,
  Or primal bodies, as primal to the world.

  Lucretius

  Law, Sky, Names

  Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Tempests, and bright lightnings, are to be sung; their nature is to be told, and from what cause they pursue their course; lest, having foolishly divided the heaven into parts, you should be anxious as to the quarter from which the flying flame may come, or to what region it may betake itself; and tremble to think how it penetrates through walled enclosures, and how, having exercised its power, it extricates itself from them. Of which phenomena the multitude can by no means see the causes, and think that they are accomplished by supernatural power.

  Lucretius

  Mean, Thinking, Flames

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.249

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• Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.

  Lucretius

  Religious, Mean, Men

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1898). “Lucretius On the Nature of Things”, p.8

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• Thus, then, the All that is is limited
  In no one region of its onward paths,
  For then 'tmust have forever its beyond.

  Lucretius

  Forever, Path, Regions

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.207, Delphi Classics

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• But since I've taught that bodies of matter, made
  Completely solid, hither and thither fly
  Forevermore unconquered through all time,
  Now come, and whether to the sum of them
  There be a limit or be none, for thee
  Let us unfold; likewise what has been found
  To be the wide inane, or room, or space
  Wherein all things soever do go on,
  Let us examine if it finite be
  All and entire, or reach unmeasured round
  And downward an illimitable profound.

  Lucretius

  Space, Profound, Goes On

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.206, Delphi Classics

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• How many evils has religion caused!
  [Lat., Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum!]

  Lucretius

  Evil, Religion

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• You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

  Lucretius

  Death, Generations, May

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1866). “T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex”, p.83

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• The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

  Lucretius

  Perseverance, Fall, Water

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• The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.

  Lucretius

  Envy, Levels, Thunderbolts

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.142, Delphi Classics

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• Certainly it was no design of the atoms to place themselves in a particular order, nor did they decide what motions each should have. But atoms were struck with blows in many ways and carried along by their own weight from infinite times up to the present.

  Lucretius

  Blow, Order, Should Have

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• How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

  Lucretius

  Stars, Sky

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1947). “De rerum natur libri sex”

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• Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

  Lucretius

  Men, Too Much

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1924). “De rerum natura”

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• To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

  Lucretius

  Power, Haste, Levels

  Lucretius (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Lucretius (Illustrated)”, p.85, Delphi Classics

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• No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By degrees They melt, and are no more the things we know.

  Lucretius

  Time, Names, Degrees

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1900). “Lucretius on Life and Death: In the Metre of Omar Khayyam”

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• It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.

  Lucretius

  Struggle, Wind, Sea

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• From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

  Lucretius

  Flower, Enchantment, Literature

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• It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

  Lucretius

  Wind, Sea, Land

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• By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.

  Lucretius

  Duration

  Titus Lucretius Carus, William Henry Denham Rouse, Martin Ferguson Smith (1975). “De rerum natura”, Harvard University Press ; London : Heinemann

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• See with what force yon river's crystal stream
  Resists the weight of many a massy beam.
  To sink the wood the more we vainly toil,
  The higher it rebounds, with swift recoil.
  Yet that the beam would of itself ascend
  No man will rashly venture to contend.
  Thus too the flame has weight, though highly rare,
  Nor mounts but when compelled by heavier air.

  Lucretius

  Science, Men, Rivers

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• And part of the soil is called to wash away In storms and streams shave close and gnaw the rocks. Besides, whatever the earth feeds and grows Is restored to earth. And since she surely is The womb of all things and their common grave, Earth must dwindle, you see and take on growth again.

  Lucretius

  Science, Erosion, Rocks

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Anthony M. Esolen (1995). “De rerum natura”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

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• The sum of things there is no power can change,
  For naught exists outside, to which can flee
  Out of the world matter of any kind,
  Nor forth from which a fresh supply can spring,
  Break in upon the founded world, and change
  Whole nature of things, and turn their motions about.

  Lucretius

  Spring, World, Matter

  Lucretius (2013). “The Way Things Are”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Bodies, again,
  Are partly primal germs of things, and partly
  Unions deriving from the primal germs.

  Lucretius

  Body, Unions, Germs

  Lucretius (2012). “On the Nature of Things”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• And thus thou canst remark that every act
  At bottom exists not of itself, nor is
  As body is, nor has like name with void;
  But rather of sort more fitly to be called
  An accident of body, and of place
  Wherein all things go on.

  Lucretius

  Names, Goes On, Body

  Epicurus, Lucretius, Cicero (2015). “Stoic Six Pack 3: The Epicureans”, p.109, Lulu.com

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